Douala
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Douala is the economic capital and main port city of Cameroon, located on the Wouri River along the Atlantic coast.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douala canonical | 80 |
| Douala metropolitan area | 6 |
| Douala, Cameroon | 4 |
| Africa/Douala | 1 |
| Douala urban area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1128781 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douala Context triple: [Cameroon, largestCity, Douala]
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A.
Yaoundé
Yaoundé is the political and administrative center of Cameroon, known for its hilly terrain and role as a major cultural and economic hub in Central Africa.
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B.
Libreville
Libreville is the largest city and main economic and cultural center of Gabon, located on the country’s Atlantic coast.
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C.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River directly across from Kinshasa in Central Africa.
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D.
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douala Target entity description: Douala is the economic capital and main port city of Cameroon, located on the Wouri River along the Atlantic coast.
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A.
Yaoundé
Yaoundé is the political and administrative center of Cameroon, known for its hilly terrain and role as a major cultural and economic hub in Central Africa.
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B.
Libreville
Libreville is the largest city and main economic and cultural center of Gabon, located on the country’s Atlantic coast.
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C.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo, located on the Congo River directly across from Kinshasa in Central Africa.
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D.
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola, a major Atlantic port and economic hub with a history shaped by Portuguese colonial rule and the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Malabo
Malabo is the largest city and main economic and administrative center of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Douala Description of subject: Douala is the economic capital and main port city of Cameroon, located on the Wouri River along the Atlantic coast.
Referenced by (92)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
West Africa Time (WAT)
linked to: Douala
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linked to: Douala
linked to: Douala
subject linked to:
FKKD